Advertising-machine



(No Model.) 0 P OLDHAM 2Sheets-Sheet 1. ADVERTISING MACHINE.

No. 474,504. Patented May 10, 1892.

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ADVERTISING MAGHINE.

No. 474,504. Patented May 10, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orifice.

CARRIOK PARK OLDI-IAM, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

ADVERTISING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,504, dated May 10,1892.

Application filed April 80, 1891. Serialllo. 391,100. (No model.)

parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of an advertising deviceconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a rearelevation, the hinged back being shown open. Fig. 3 is a side elevation.Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view on line as w of Fig. 2, the hingedFig. 5 is a horizontal section being closed.

Flg. 6 1s sectional view on line y y of Fig. 3. a detail sectional view.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a casing, which isrectangular in horizontal section and consists of sides 2, a front 3, aslanting top 4, and the hinged back 5, adapted to be opened to affordaccess to the interior of the casing and provided with a lock. Thecasing is provided with a vertical partition 6, which is arrangedparallel with the sides 2, and has its lower end supported by ahorizontal partition 7 and is about half the width of the sides 2, andleaves vertical spaces at the back of the casing. The vertical spacesare divided into a series of compartments 8 and 9 by inclined plates 10and 11, which are arranged in grooves or ways 13in the opposed faces ofthe sides 2 and the vertical partition 6. The plates incline toward thefront of the casing, and the compartments are closed byavertically-sliding plate 14, which 1s adapted to gradually descend andallow the contents of the compartments to fall intermittently and atregular intervals. The large compartment 8 is designed to contain cardsbearing advertising-matter, and as the sliding plate descends a card isprecipitated over the upper edge of the plate and falls down the spacebetween the plate and the front of the casing and drops upon a hingedboard 15, which is arranged at the bottom and front of the easing andwhen in a horizontal position projects through an opening 16 of thefront of the easing to cause the contents of the compartments to fallmore readily upon the hinged section 17 and to prevent them accumulatingon the bottom of the casing.

The front of the casing is provided with a section 17, which is hingedto the bottom 18, and is adapted to be lowered to a horizontal positionto forma shelf and is supported when lowered by slotted plates 19,pivoted to the sides of the section 17 and connected to the sides of thecasing by screws which are arranged in the slots.

The casing is divided at its bottom by a glass plate 20 or othertransparent partition,

which is arranged in grooves of the sides 2,

and is located beneath the horizontal partition and forms, with thelatter-and the casing, a compartment or show-case adapted to displayarticles.

The descent of the vertically-sliding plate is regulated by clock-work21, which is designed to lower the plate to permit-a card to beprecipitated every minute; but the period may be increased ordiminished, as desired. The compartments 9 are adapted to containprizes, which are delivered atintervals of an' The vertically-slidingplate is constructed of glass and is attached to one end of a cord 22,which has its other end wound upon a drum 23 of an arbor 24 of theclock-work 21, and the cord passes over a pulley 25 and is secured tothe bottom of the plate 14. The pulley 25is arranged ina recess 26 ofthe vertical partition 6, and the cord is arranged at the front and theback of the partition, and the pulley is mounted on a shaft 27. Theshaft 27 carries at its ends, which are journaled in the sides of thecasing, advertisingdisks 28, which are arranged on the inner faces ofthe sides and are adapted to expose advertisements through apertures 29,and the ICC form a clutch and enable the drum to be reversed withoutrotating the arbor 24 when it is desired to wind up the cord and raisethe vertically-sliding plate. A wheel 32 of the clock-work is arrangedat one end thereof, and is provided with a projection 33, extendinglaterally from the wheel near the circumference of the same and arrangedto engage a striking-lever 34, which is provided at one end with a head35, and has its other end arranged to be engaged by the projection 33.The lever 34 is mounted on a shaft 36 of a frame 37, and is providedwith a depending weight 38, and at each revolution of the .wheel 32 theend 39 of the lever is raised by the projection 33, which also lifts thedepending weight 38 and afterward releases the lever, and the dependingweightcarries the head 35 of the lever into engagement with a bell 40.The bell 40 is sounded at each revolution of the wheel 32, or oftener,as desired, in which casea number of projections 33 will be provided,and the said bell is sufficient to attract attention; but other meansmay be employed, if desired, such as a music-box or the like, and Idesire to be understood thatI do not limit myself to the precise detailsof construction, as I may, without departure from the spirit of myinvention, make minor changes therein.

The front of the casing is provided with recesses 41, in which arefitted plugs 42, of cork or similar material, adapted to receive a tackor other means for securing a sign 43, which is designed to bearinformation indicative of the character of the prizes andinducementsoffered by the advertising device, and

the cork enables the sign to be readily removed inclined plates arrangedbetween the par The vertically-movable plate is arrangedand changed.

adjacent shoulders 44 and anti-friction rollers 45, and the plate isheld against the rollers by the contents of the compartments 8 and 9.The anti-friction rollers 45 are secured to the sides of the casing inrecesses, and also in recesses of a partition 46, which forms anextension of the transparent plate 20.

It will be seen that the advertising device is simple and inexpensive inconstruction and adapted to attract and retain the attention.

What I claim is 1. In an advertising device, the combination of a casingprovided with a'vertical series of inclined compartments, avertically-movable plate mounted in the casing and arranged at andclosing the lower ends of the compartments when it is elevated, andmeans for regulating and producing a gradual descent of the plate,substantially as described.

2. In an advertising device, the combination of the casing provided withan inclined compartment, a vertically-movable plate arranged at thelower end of the compartment, time mechanism 21, provided with a drum23, a pulley, and a cord passing over the pulley and having one endattached to the plate and the other end connected to the drum,substantially as described.

3. In an advertising device, the combination of the casing, the verticalpartition 6, the inclined plates arranged between the partition 6 andthe sides of the casing and forming a series of inclined compartments,the vertically-movable plate arranged at the lower ends of thecompartments, the horizontal partition supporting the lower end of thevertical partition 6, the shaft 27, mounted in the casing, the pulley25, mounted 011 the shaft 27, the cord passing over the pulley andconnected to the movable plate, and the time mechanism provided with adrum to receive the cord, substantially as described.

4. In an advertising device, the combination of the casing provided withapertures 29 and having inclined compartments, the verticallymovableplate arranged at the lower ends of the compartments, the shaftjournaled in the casing, the advertising-disks arranged on the ends ofthe shaft and disposed opposite the apertures of the casing, the pulleymounted on the shaft, the time mechanism, and the cord passing over thepulley and connected with the time mechanism and attached to the movableplate, substantially as described.

5. In an advertising device, the combination of the casing, the verticalpartical 6, the

tition and the sides of the casing and forming compartments, thehorizontal partition, the vertical transparent plate 20, thevertically-movable plate, the hinged board 15,and means for controllingthe descent of the plate, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmysignature in presence of two witnesses.

OARRICK PARK OLDHAM. Witnesses: N. A. W. PAUL, W. W. LEE.

